Talk, Talk, Talk: September 2008

By Bill Gibron

From wars both past and present to a number of nail-biting thrillers, September is sizing up as a potentially profitable one. [9 September 2008]

In the Land of the Blind

By Chris Barsanti

Fernando Meirelles’ adaptation of Jose Saramago’s Blindness fails because the source material doesn’t easily lend itself to cinema, and because the filmmaker is clearly out of his depth. [3 October 2008]

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Blindness

By Cynthia Fuchs

If its political metaphor is plain, the aesthetic allusions are more intriguing, as Blindness works to show what can't be shown, to find a visual language for what's not visual. [3 October 2008]

Short Ends and Leader: Fable Feels ‘Blind’ to its Own Illogic